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Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tolcyo, et in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XII. (1808) p. 228. 



Ajuga decumbens f. erecta fSavatier in linuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, ed. 

 2, XI. fol. 6 recto, no. .5. 



? Ajuga decumbens j. glabrescens Franch. et. Sav. Enmn. PI. Jap. 

 II. p. 466. 



Perennial, 1-4 decim. high, stoloniferous; stolons 1-9, slender, often long, 

 attaining about 4 decim. in length, remotely foliate ; rhizome short, erect, 

 or repent, rooting. Stems 1 to 8, erect but the lateral ones ascending, 

 remotely pauci-foliate, villose ; the internode long, the longest one 

 23 cm. Leaves petiolate, erect-patent, oblong, elliptical, ovato-oblong, or 

 ovate, obtuse, sinuate, or repand-sinuate, herbaceous, flaccid, pilosulate 

 or glabrous, veins loose ; the petiole short or long ; after flowering and 

 fruiting the radical leaves l)ecome glabrous and often become much increased 

 in size, attaining 20 cm. in length including the petiole. Spike 4-2.5 cm. long,, 

 simple, erect ; verticillasters tri-quinqueflorous, sessile, shorter than bracts, 

 the lower ones remote ; rachis villose, the lower internode often elongated ; 

 bracts foliaceous, patent, similar to leaves in form but sessile and smaller 

 in size, sinuate or sometimes entire, pilose, often subtriplinerved. Flower 

 very shortly pedicellate. Calyx campanulate, cut down to the middle into 

 5-cleft lobes, patently villose and ciliated, 5-6 mm. long; lobes subulato- 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; the tube many-nerveel. Corolla exserted, blue ; the 

 tube narrow, 6-7 mm. long, somewhat enlarged at the base ; limb labiate, 

 the lower lip patent, 5-Q mm. long, 3-parted, the lateral lobes oblong, 

 obtuse, ciliated, the midlobe broadly obovato-cuneate, emarginate with 

 rotund lobes and a slightly produced tip between the lobes ; the upper lip 

 very short, bilobed. Stamens slightly exserted, inserted on the upper 

 portion of the corolla-tube, the lower ones slightly longer ; filament 

 slightly pilose ; anther subreniform. Style slightly exserted, glabrous, with 

 a bifid stigma ; ovary glabrous, the lobes globose. Nutlets elliptical, 

 minutely reticulato-foveolate, yellowish-smoky. 



Hob. Prov. Shimoosa : Kogane-ga-hara (^Herb. ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo, May 16, 1880); Prov. Musashi : Tokyo (Herb.! ibid; T. Makino \ 

 May 1896), Toda-hara (B. Yatabe and J. Matsumura ! herb. ibid. May 

 3, 1880) ; Shimura {T. Makino ! May 22, 1898), Kanagawa (T. Maldno \ 

 April 23, 1890); Prov. Sagami : Hiratsuka {T. Malcino\ Aug. 4, 1895); 

 Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko (T. Malcino ! June and Aug. 27, 1901). 



This variety differs from the ty[)e, mainly by having the several stems 

 and dense villosity. 



